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Meaning of "half-deserted" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HALF-DESERTED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HALF-DESERTED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Half-Deserted is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HALF-DESERTED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of half-deserted in the English dictionary

The definition of half-deserted in the dictionary is not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HALF-DESERTED

half-covered
half-crazy
half-crown
half-cup bra
half-cut
half-day
half-dazed
half-dead
half-deaf
half-deck
half-digested
half-dollar
half-done
half-dozen
half-dressed
half-drowned
half-drunk
half-eaten
half-educated
half-empty

WORDS THAT END LIKE HALF-DESERTED

concerted
converted
deserted
disconcerted
exserted
extraverted
extroverted
inserted
introverted
perverted
preconcerted
retroverted
sorted
unalerted
unaverted
unconcerted
uncontroverted
unconverted
undiverted
unreverted

Synonyms and antonyms of half-deserted in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «half-deserted» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HALF-DESERTED

Find out the translation of half-deserted to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of half-deserted from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «half-deserted» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

半冷清
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

medio desiertas
570 millions of speakers

English

half-deserted
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आधा सुनसान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

- مهجورة نصف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

наполовину дезертировал
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desertas metade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্ধ-জনশূন্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

demi- déserte
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Separuh tinggal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Halb verlassen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハーフ見捨て
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반 황량한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Setengah-sepi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nửa bỏ hoang
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரை வனாந்திரத்தில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्धवट सोडून
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yarı-terkedilmiş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

semideserto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wpół opuszczony
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

наполовину дезертирував
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

- jumătate pustii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ημι- ερημική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

half- verlate
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

halv - givna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

halv øde
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of half-deserted

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-DESERTED»

The term «half-deserted» is used very little and occupies the 177.479 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-DESERTED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «half-deserted» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «half-deserted» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about half-deserted

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALF-DESERTED»

Discover the use of half-deserted in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to half-deserted and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Miracle Maker: Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi
Let us go then you, T. S. Eliot, and I, to where black night scratches its back with long fingernails and walk the fog of half-deserted streets that take us to the past and lift us to the old spring of time like poets sitting in funeral parlors until we return ...
Fāḍil ʻAzzāwī, 2003
2
Girl Groups: Fabulous Females Who Rocked the World
The more interesting flip, Carl Spencer's “Half-Deserted Street” was initially pushed as the A-side. This single was released on the small Spokane Records, then distributed by Florence Greenberg's Scepter complex. Although this single didn't ...
John Clemente, 2013
3
Texas Monthly
HALF-DESERTED. FORT. HOOD,. THE. LAST. OF. THE. TROOPS. RUSH. TO. JOIN. IN. A. FARAWAY. DESERT. WAR. EVEN IN WARTIME, NO GUARDHOUSE OR SECURITY GATE BLOCKS the way into Fort Hood. Traffic rolls onto the giant  ...
4
Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre
The Last Supper and The Minotaur: eyes 'half filled and half deserted' Birtwistle's decision to base a dramatic work on the Last Supper reflects a wider artistic trend for Christian and spiritual themes at the approach to the millenium.1 Yet ...
David Beard, 2012
5
MotorBoating
In good weather Port Wing seems like a quaint, if not sleepy, half-deserted fishing village. Its rickety old fishing shacks, half dozen “docks”, and obvious lack of facilities proved that it was, in fact, a sleepy half-deserted fishing village. In bad ...
6
Reconnecting.calm
... landscape is echoed by American authors, too: • In T. S. Eliot's “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1917): “Let us go then, you and I... through certain half- deserted streets The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels.
Tom Mahon, 2011
7
The African Exploration Anthology: The Personal Accounts of ...
Thence, having spent the night in the jungle, we next morning pushed into the cultivated district of Rubuga, and put up in some half-deserted tembes, where the ravages of war were even more disgusting to witness than at Tura. The chief, as I  ...
Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, David Livingstone, 2013
8
The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific
The gold-fever had stricken everybody—merchants even, mechanics, clerks, all in fact but the few cool hands who realised that by remaining in the half-deserted towns they were sure of making that fortune the winning of which at the diggings  ...
Harry Collingwood, 2012
9
The Complete Fiction Collection
... fantastic world of hushed unreality in which the narrow, ribbon-like road rose and fell and curved with an almost sentient and purposeful caprice amidst the tenantless green peaks and half-deserted valleys. Except for the sound of the motor, ...
H. P. Lovecraft, 2012
10
After Postcolonialism: Remapping Philippines-United States ...
We pass half-built, half-deserted cinder-block structures at the edge of town, with mud-spattered deserted cars parked in an uncleared lot, and I wonder, Who's inside? What are they doing? Who's hiding? Empty swimming pools and plywood  ...
E. San Juan, Jr., 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HALF-DESERTED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term half-deserted is used in the context of the following news items.
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Mor Loushy, Chapman Way among Catapult grantees
... on an embattled Baltimore community; Rati Oneli's The City of the Sun, about residents in a half-deserted Georgian ghost town in the former ... «Realscreen, Jul 15»
2
Why We're Still Traveling to Greece This Summer
We've planned to pair a weeklong Windstar sightseeing cruise with some barefoot luxury on a half-deserted island. After gliding between ... «Condé Nast Traveler, Jul 15»
3
THE LONG READ: The evil genius behind the migrant crisis
Despite being half-deserted, the town boasts two new hospitals, two new train stations and two new markets, none of which have ever opened. «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
4
Game of Thrones season 5 finale spoilers: For the Watch & the fate …
... and current stronghold of the devilishly cruel Bolton family, when Stannis marched his cold, tired, half-deserted army with about as much of a ... «Exeter Express and Echo, Jun 15»
5
Drinking in the sights and sounds of Tallinn and Helsinki
Even the trendiest tourist would hesitate before visiting the Baltic region in early spring. It's cold, windy and half-deserted. I wouldn't come at ... «South China Morning Post, Jun 15»
6
Mastermind: The evil genius behind the migrant crisis
Despite being half-deserted, the town boasts two new hospitals, two new train stations and two new markets, none of which have ever opened. «Newsweek, Jun 15»
7
Copperpoint Open and Rockin'
Who'd have thunk an obscure, half-deserted industrial area in Boynton Beach would become the new foodie hotspot? Tags: copperpoint ... «Boca Raton, Jun 15»
8
Free clinic 'sends message to world' after treating 34000 in Zimbabwe
Patients aren't the only people delighted with the free clinic, which leased vacant retail space in a half-deserted shopping center. The shopping ... «Adventist News Network, May 15»
9
Free Clinic 'Sends Message to World' After Treating 34000 in …
Patients aren't the only people delighted with the free clinic, which leased vacant retail space in a half-deserted shopping center. The shopping ... «Adventist Review, May 15»
10
The Love Song of J. Middle-Aged Stayathomemother
Like smeared cupcakes on an abandoned bake sale table; Let us go, through half-deserted parking lots, The white lines resembling burial plots «Huffington Post, May 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Half-Deserted [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/half-deserted>. Apr 2024 ».
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